Case Studies

The PRIDE Study aims to improve the health of LGBTQ people and their communities.

UCSF, THREAD Research, and Aptible launched a world-class research study that will forever change how the LGBTQ community, health care professionals, policy-makers, and other researchers think.

Mitchell Lunn, MD, and Juno Obedin-Maliver, MD, MPH are researchers
at the University of California, San Francisco. They are the principal
investigators of The PRIDE Study, a large-scale, long-term health
study of LGBTQ people, which aims to improve the health of LGBTQ
people and their communities.

Lunn and Obedin-Maliver’s design for PRIDE is an ambitious, multi-year
study. They faced three key challenges:

Challenge 2: Scaling.
The study needs to scale both horizontally in scope and vertically
with more participants. Once the participant cohort is mature, the
study design involves investigations into topics pertaining to
specific medical and social issues.

Challenge 3: Maximizing funding.
Using funding efficiently means reaching more participants and running
the study for a longer period of time.

To solve all three problems at once, Lunn and Obedin-Maliver
partnered with THREAD Research to create a ResearchKit-based
iPhone application.

But this introduced a fourth problem:

How would they host the ResearchKit API backend and securely store
the data?

The engineers at THREAD Research turned to Aptible. Built on Amazon
Web Services, Aptible’s secure, compliant cloud platform allowed
them to launch the study in less than 6 weeks, for 90% less than the
cost of a traditional IT solution.

Using Aptible helped Drs. Lunn and Obedin-Maliver quickly gain IRB
and data security approvals from UCSF. Aptible’s stability and
scaling performance make it ideal for a project that may eventually
grow to a decades-long, global study involving millions of
participants.

UCSF, THREAD Research, and Aptible launched a world-class research
study that will forever change how the LGBTQ community, health care
professionals, policy-makers, and other researchers think.

Location

San Francisco, California

Industry

Healthcare

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